The Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu \u200b\u200b Saturday was proclaimed presidential candidate of the left general elections of 11 September in Guatemala .
Menchú was cheered by a thousand supporters who came to the house, situated on the western outskirts of the capital.
Indigenous leader, which will mate the current deputy Anibal Garcia, hopes to succeed President Alvaro Colom in elections in September.
Menchu \u200b\u200bwas nominated by the indigenous political party Winaq and the Broad Front, composed of the leftist Alternative New Nation (ANN) and the former guerrillas of the National Unity Guatemalan Revolutionary (URNG), which in December 1996 signed a peace treaty with the government.
also integrates a civic movement, the People's Trade Organization, the National Front, and 18 other social groups, according to former guerrilla commander, Jorge Ismael Soto, known by the alias of Paul Monsanto.
Menchú, the first indigenous woman to aspire to presidential power in Guatemala, suffered a setback in the 2007 elections when he lost the election to the current president.
The Nobel Prize does not appear until the surveys conducted by the local press, who place as a favorite retired General Otto Pérez , the right-wing Patriotic Party.
This Saturday also was proclaimed evangelical pastor Harold Caballeros, and former state president of the University of San Carlos, Efrain Medina, a candidate for president and vice president respectively of the alliance Encuentro por Guatemala and Vision with Values \u200b\u200b(Viva).
About 7 million Guatemalans are eligible to choose September 11 the new president and vice president, 158 congressional deputies, 333 mayors and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament.
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